New Feature: great song lyrics

First great song lyric is from the self proclaimed “The Only Band That Matters” (The Clash). As an aside: how did the untitled song on London Calling, which came to be known as “Train in Vain”, become titled? I don’t know the story.

“Straight to Hell”
(The Clash)

If you can play on the fiddle
How’s about a British jig and reel?
Speaking King’s English in quotation
As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust water froze
In the generation
Clear as winter ice
This is your paradise

Straight to hell
Oh Papa-san
Please take me home
Oh Papa-san
Everybody they wanna go home
So Mamma-san says

You wanna play mind-crazed banjo
On the druggy-drag ragtime U.S.A.?
In Parkland International
Hah! Junkiedom U.S.A.
Where procaine proves the purest rock man groove
and rat poison
The volatile Molatov says

Pssst…
Hey Chico we got a message for ya…
vamos vamos muchacho
From Alphabet City all the way A to Z, dead, head

Go straight to hell

Can you really cough it up loud and strong
The immigrants
They wanna sing all night long
It could be anywhere
Most likely could be any frontier
Any hemisphere
No man’s land and there ain’t no asylum here
King Solomon he never lived round here